c)
Standing beneath a banner depicting the violence in East
Timor, Indonesian police officers with riot shields block
human rights activists from taking their protest to the
United Nations office in Jakarta. (AP Photo/Charles
Dharapak)

NEWS

1) U.N. approves peacekeeping force for
East Timor 16/09/99 (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) The United
Nations Security Council Wednesday agreed to send a
multi-national force to restore peace in East Timor, where a
campaign of terror against independence supporters has
raged on unabated.

2) Australia on details of East Timor
force agreement 16/09/99 (Australian Broadcasting Corp.) "We
don’t want a repeat of what happened some years ago in
Bosnia, where the peacekeeping operation there had such a
weak charter that, you know, you ended up with peacekeepers
chained to posts unable to do anything to defend
themselves."

3) Horta: Indonesian presence in East Timor
a bad joke. 16/09/99 (AAP) "It would be an affront to the
people of East Timor if the same criminals, the same
rapists in the TNI who have been murdering thousands of
people, who have committed ... atrocities, destroyed a
whole country physically, would now pretend to be part of a
multinational force."

4) US journalist captured by
military in Dili 16/09/99 (Australian Broadcasting
Corporation) "The food situation is very grave, for the
refugees and the Aitarak, even for people in Dili city
itself. Stores and warehouses have been burnt and looted and
destroyed. It’s probably worse than many other parts of the
countryside."

5) Indon military may kill Aussies to
salvage some self-respect 16/09/99 (The Australian Financial
Review) For the Indonesian military to salvage some
self-respect from the mess it created in East Timor one
thing is essential. The peacekeeping force led by Australia
must not have an easy time restoring security.

6) Indon
students shot, beaten, in clashes over military atrocities
16/09/99 (AFP) JAKARTA - Protests erupted here Wednesday as
the UN approved sending troops to East Timor, with security
forces opening fire outside the UN building at students
protesting Indonesian military atrocities.

7) Testimony
by E Timorese Refugees 16/09/99 (Amnesty International)
Amnesty International today released terrifying testimony
it has taken from two East Timorese refugees demonstrating
how widespread the violence remains in East Timor.

8)
East Timorese in West Timor to be transported across
Indonesia 16/09/99 (Jakareta Post) Minister of
Transmigration A.M. Hendro Priyono said here that
transmigration areas across the province would be allotted
for the East Timorese, who are being deported from their
homeland following the Aug. 30 self-determination
ballot.

9) Indon foreign ministry gave media training to
militia 16/09/99 (AFP) HONG KONG - The Indonesian foreign
ministry organized and paid for leaders of the
pro-Indonesian militia in East Timor to be trained in
public relations ahead of the recent election, the Far
Eastern Economic Review said Wednesday.

PRESS
RELEASES

10) Ireland’s Gerry Adams contacts Clinton and
Blair over East Timor 16/09/99 (Sinn Féin) Sinn Féin
President Gerry Adams MP this afternoon wrote to An
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and faxed messages to US President
Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to seek
their support for the immediate deployment of the UN Peace
Keeping force which has been agreed for East Timor.

11)
Indonesian Unionists back East Timor freedom struggle
16/09/99 (FNPBI) "We call on the international community,
especially the workers to maintain pressure on the
Indonesian government through strikes/industrial action,
economic sanctions and other forms of
pressure."

OPINION

12) Now east timor, next West Papua
15/09/99 (OPM) East Timorese’s unanimous vote for
independence is the beginning of the road to freedom for
indonesia’s "colonies." The events of 30 August 1999 will
undoubtedly inspire others struggling to disentangle
themselves from the indonesian regime, in particular west
papua (the western half of the island of new guinea which
the indonesians call irian jaya).

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